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Cannelon a LA Royale

A veal roll stuffed with ham, herbs, lemon peel, nutmeg, and eggs, baked and served with Portugaise sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cannelon a LA Royale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Pass the veal through a mincing machine twice.

  2. Mix in the minced ham, pepper, salt, parsley, shallot, lemon peel, and nutmeg.

  3. Add the beaten eggs and shape the mixture into a roll.

Cook and serve

  1. Wrap the roll in well-greased parchment paper and place it in a bag.

  2. Cook for 25 minutes.

  3. Carefully remove from the bag, unroll, and serve on a hot dish with Portugaise sauce.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cold roast veal
Forms the main body of the roll, giving it bulk and a tender, sliceable texture.
Cooked ham
Adds savory flavor and a firmer, meaty texture to the filling.
Eggs
Bind the minced mixture so it holds its shape as a roll.

The step that matters

Shaping and wrapping the roll. The roll must be packed tightly and wrapped snugly in greased parchment so it cooks evenly and holds its shape. Loose packing can cause it to fall apart when unrolled and served.

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, ham, pepper, parsley, lemon, nutmeg, egg):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Carrotfits about as well
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, ham, pepper, parsley, lemon, nutmeg, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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